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Testing EMI Materials for Battlefield Applications
The testing of EMI materials must be rigorous and designed to predict performance over the lifetime of a material.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Monitor Your Spectrum for Signs of Threats
Spectrum monitoring can detect signs of threats and provide insight into mitigating them.
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Satellite Paves the Way for Improved Storm Tracking
Microwave radiometers on current satellites are about the size of a washing machine. On TROPICS’ small satellites, the radiometers are about the size of a coffee mug.
Articles Data Acquisition
Facing 5G New Radio (NR) Test Challenges
The use of CA, MIMO, and beamforming technologies will lead to more antennas and radio ports that need to be tested.
Products Energy
New Products
Coaxial connectors, tactical servers, test benches, surge protectors, and more.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Shielding Aerospace Systems from Electromagnetic Interference
See how a nanocomposite thermoplastic called HX5 can stop EMI.
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Spectrum Processing Subsystems
The subsystems enable the development and deployment of electronic warfare and signal intelligence.
Articles Test & Measurement
Army Detects Broadest Frequencies Ever with Quantum Receiver
A new quantum sensor analyzes the full spectrum of radio-frequency and real-world signals, unleashing new potential for soldier communications, spectrum awareness, and electronic warfare.
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New Products
Position sensors, surveillance systems, microwave tuners, and more.
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How Solid-State Technology Impacts A&D Equipment Testing
Learn how to provide accurate power sources with adjustable voltages and frequencies during the test cycle.
Products Electronics & Computers
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Network analyzers, FPGAs, mobile surface measurement, and more.
Products Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Docking stations for satellite phones; aircraft wiring; spectrum analyzers; and more.
Articles Test & Measurement
Photonic Microwave Generation Using On-Chip Optical Frequency Combs
A key building block of microwave photonics is optical frequency combs, which provide hundreds of equidistant and mutually coherent laser lines.
Articles Test & Measurement
Advances in Millimeter-Wave Isolator Design Launch Manufacturers into Stratospheric Operating Frequencies
The sky’s the limit for utilizing the higher ends of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum.
Application Briefs Defense
Automatic Drone Detection System
Tektronix partnered with Erisys RF Solutions to release an automated drone detection solution.
Articles Test & Measurement
Multi-Agent RF Propagation Simulator
A desirable interface between multi-agents is through over-the-air RF connections that include not only the intended direct RF communications paths but also highly variable multi-ray propagation, range...
Articles Aerospace
Hardware Design of a High Dynamic Range Radio Frequency (RF) Harmonic Measurement System
Radio frequency (RF) circuit elements that are traditionally considered to be linear frequently exhibit nonlinear properties that affect the intended...
Articles Test & Measurement
New Pulse Analysis Techniques for Radar and EW
Pulsed signals are widespread in radar and other electronic warfare (EW) applications, and they must be accurately measured for manufacturing, design of countermeasures, and threat assessment;...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Identifying and Isolating Signals Using Radio Frequency Photonics
A single antenna can be used for both transmission and reception. To accomplish this, the transmission must be isolated from the reception. In Figure 1, a radio frequency...
Articles Test & Measurement
Combining Software and Hardware for Highly Specialized Multichannel Spectrum Monitoring
Systems specifically designed for spectrum monitoring applications typically acquire RF signals from a reference antenna or downlink, analyze the shape...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
50 GHz Handheld Combination Analyzer
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) has added six millimeter-wave models to its family of FieldFox handheld analyzers. The flagship model is the industry’s first handheld combination analyzer...
Articles Defense
Enhance EMC Testing with Digital IF
Modern electromagnetic interference (EMI) receivers and spectrum analyzers used for compliance and precompliance testing employ digital intermediate-frequency (digital IF) processing technology for signal...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Testing Modern Radios
Several techniques are now being employed to ensure efficient communications across the chaotic radio spectrum. Chief among them is Software Defined Radio (SDR), which uses software to dynamically control communications...
Articles Test & Measurement
Using Software Defined Instruments to Address the Mixed-Signal Test Challenges of Today’s Software Defined Radios
Software Defined Radio (SDR) represents an important move forward for mobile and personal communications, promising a major...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Low Noise Advances in RF & Microwave Signal Analysis Platforms
Spectrum measurements are essential to RF and microwave testing. The newer signal analyzers available today deliver performance far better than those of just a few years ago. The...
Products Test & Measurement
RF/IF Digitizer
ZTEC Instruments (Albuquerque, NM) and Astronics DME Corp. (East Aurora, NY) have developed the ZR8441 RF/IF digitizer. The digitizer comes standard with a full-featured, on-instrument spectrum analyzer. Technical...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Effect of Laser Noise on an Analog RF/Photonic Link
Aset of equations has been formulated to enable quantification of several aspects of the performance of an analog photonic communication link as affected by laser noise. A procedure for...
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